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Pirating sensor data from the Roller Derby players to use as framework to trigger text feeds - past, present & realtime from skaters, audience and artists. Expanding the action on the track, the screen displays a data-mash: live tweets & text feeds, mapped with the cyclic rolling energy of the skaters, building vibrancy. A montage of conversation, description, conjecture & moments pirated from history and literature.
Description from Bump Projects, an initiative for collaborative art projects]]> Excerpt from Leonardo Flores' description in I love E-Poetry]]> The work also incorporates a "Recombinant" section enabling the user to re-order Seaman's video, generate a new soundtrack by choosing from 144 different musical sections - layering up to seven at a time, as well as recombine Seaman's texts via this pen interface. The work functions as a companion work to Passage Sets / One Pulls Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue which was also influenced by the Mallarme text.
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This project will use the Rivercat Ferry Service as a moving platform to deliver a location sensitive audio and visual exploration of the river, it's people and their many stories The Parramatta River is also a living narrative, with shoals of submerged stories flowing together in a shared history. The Rivercat Project will capture many of these stories and present them on a location aware smartphone or tablet as you travel along the river. You will also be able to add to the narrative flow yourself by sharing your experiences, memories and observations.
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Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier is a video/sound installation, which is part of a cross media project that also includes the Internet site The 4th Floor. The project was begun in Paris in 2004 while doing a residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts. The work takes as a point of departure the experience of being Australians in Paris and reading George Perec's book Life a User's Manual. In this book Perec creates a puzzle of a novel set in a building located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris at number 11 rue Simon-Crubellier.
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The Seeker installation uses three large projections to explore migration, territorial boundaries, conflict commodities and human displacement. Seeker's interactive component enables participants to map their own personal family migration history. Making a contribution allows access to a visualisation of all accumulated maps. The most recent vectors are drawn first, followed gradually by the vectors of previous participants. An alternative animated visualisation can be accessed by the viewer where elegant curves represent the distance each generation has travelled.
Another screen shows panning satellite imagery of cities overlaid with moving text of harvested news feeds. The text describes incidents where people have died attempting to seek refuge in another country. The third screen consists of animated curves representing population migration data, and the effect conflict resources such as tantalum, diamonds and oil have had on the displacement of people. The animations are overlaid onto vast empty landscape images from Africa, Australia and India.
Over time the three screens begin a silent conversation with one another as the viewer makes connections between issues of personal migration, conflict resources and the way human displacement is represented in the global media.
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A phone number is displayed on a large screen in a public space along with the instruction 'sms your family origins' Participants sms their own and their parents places of birth to this number and linked curved vectors are added to a public map that updates in real time as it receives texts. The map is not static, texts are displayed in real time, while the map zooms in to the countries of origin and animated vectors connect the locations. As more people participate the map grows to include accumulated vectors.
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The multimedia work, soundAFFECTs, employs the text of 'AFFECTions' as its base, but converts it into a piece which combines text as moving image and transforming sound. For the multimedia work Roger Dean programmed a performing interface using the real-time image processing program Jitter; he also programmed a performing interface in MAX/MSP to enable algorithmic generation of the sound. This multimedia work has been shown in performance on many occasions projected on a large screen with live music; the text and sound are processed in real time and each performance is different.
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Attempting to write four different letters simultaneously with the use of extensions attached to arms and legs.
Source of Artist Statement]]> Well-worn Australian cinematic type images of desolate roads against furnace red skies with road trains thundering down them juxtapose silent shots of scrubby desert wildflowers as a voice narrates the story of the artists' road trip and their spare poetic observations. Scenes of various tourist sites in Woomera: a park containing old rockets sculpturally displayed; public buildings; close-ups of bowling pins being knocked down in the town's bowling alley display the aesthetic residues of the Space age: the surprising junk left over and what becomes of it.
The soundscape features rhythmic ambiguous metallic sounds, sounding sometimes like the clatter of a typewriter, at other times the scraping sound of metal against a metal interspersed with the crunch of footsteps walking over salty earth, at other times quiet with spare voice over.
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In 2006 we took a roadtrip to Woomera in South Australia, wanting to see the fabled rocket-testing, weapons testing site we were surprised at what we found. Woomera the traditional country of the Kokatha people is now owned by the Defence Department. It's essentially a company town, rather than a country town. Woomera is a place that occupies a singular and contradictory position in the Australian cultural landscape. It is a place of actual and imaginary space junk, an ageing Rocket Park and a town with a shrinking population. It was once the centre of Australia's defence program - testing rockets and sending Australia's first satellite into orbit. 4000-7000 people lived there. Today there is about 200 people living in a purpose-built town surrounded by the Woomera Prohibited Area. In many ways it exemplifies modernity's contradictions and paradoxes.
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Using speech to text software trained to my scratchy and yet (in the afternoon) velvety voice, I process the worlds of media (movies, radio, music, crowds, the ocean). The software, as all technology, is an imperfect and jealous lover that misunderstands explosions, or ambient noise as text, and retranslates the sounds and dialogues, finds hidden words beneath what we (and it) hears. Think of the process as an interpretive dance, a jittery technological oracle for our electronic boxes that shine out uncertain media prophets. These poems are the first in a series of noise to poetics experiments.
Source of Artist Statement]]> ]]> .02 Spring and Asura is an interactive artwork that explores the interconnectivity of the animate and the inanimate. This work explores the relationship between video images of the natural world and the poem Spring and Asura written by Kenji Miyazawa translated into English by Hiroaki Sato. [ ]Using a combination of image and motion capture technology, the artwork explores the movement of light and shade in the video recordings and responds to the visitor in the space. This self generating interconnected system creates an ordering and reordering of the poetry text resulting in shifts in time movement and abstraction through the viewing of the work.
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Brief curious video based songs/sound poems with flash animated backgrounds.
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A double sided armchair made of secondhand hardcover novels contains a sound track of the continuous reading of a collaged narrative taken from 64 different novels. A quasi-narrative which never finds a resolution.]]> Artist Statement
A collection of related digital poems, all attached to objects, exploring our fascination and near religious reliance on household machines.
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